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      Misunderstanding in Social Life
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      Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk

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      Misunderstanding in Social Life book

      Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk
      ByJuliane House, Gabriele Kasper, Steven Ross
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2003
      eBook Published 3 November 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315838663
      Pages 272
      eBook ISBN 9781315838663
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      House, J., Kasper, G., & Ross, S. (2003). Misunderstanding in Social Life: Discourse Approaches to Problematic Talk (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315838663

      ABSTRACT

      Misunderstanding is a pervasive phenomenon in social life, sometimes with serious consequences for people's life chances. Misunderstandings are especially hazardous in high-stakes events such as job interviews or in the legal system. In unequal power encounters, unsuccessful communication is regularly attributed to the less powerful participant, especially when those participants are members of an ethnic minority group. But even when communicative events are not prestructured by participants' differential positions in social hierarchies, misunderstandings occur at different levels of interactional and social engagement.

      Misunderstanding in Social Life examines such problematic talk in ordinary conversation and different institutional settings, including socializing events and story tellings, education and assessment activities, and interviews in TV news broadcasts, employment agencies, legal settings, and language testing. The analyzed interactions are located in a variety of sociocultural environments and conducted in a range of languages, including English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, such language varieties as Aboriginal Australian English and Maori New Zealand English, and nonnative varieties.

      The original studies included in this volume adopt a variety of theoretical perspectives, including discourse-pragmatic approaches, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, social constructionism, tropological and narrative analysis. They represent multiple views of misunderstanding as a multilayered discourse event.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|21 pages

      Misunderstanding talk

      ByJuliane House, Gabriele Kasper, Steven Ross

      chapter 2|35 pages

      Misunderstanding in intercultural university encounters

      ByJuliane House

      chapter 3|25 pages

      Misunderstandings: interactional structure and strategic resources

      ByVolker Hinnenkamp

      chapter 4|25 pages

      Repetition as a source of miscommunication in oral proficiency interviews

      ByGabriele Kasper, Steven Ross

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Misunderstandings in political interviews

      ByShoshana Blum-Kulka, Elda Weizman

      chapter 6|25 pages

      Identity, role and voice in cross-cultural (mis)communication

      ByClaire Kramsch

      chapter 7|19 pages

      Misunderstanding teaching and learning

      ByJoan Turner, Masako Hiraga

      chapter 8|26 pages

      'I couldn't follow her story. . Ethnic differences in New Zealand narratives

      ByJanet Holmes

      chapter 9|28 pages

      The politics of misunderstanding in the legal system: Aboriginal English speakers in Queensland

      ByDiana Eades

      chapter 10|31 pages

      Distrust: A determining factor in the outcomes of gatekeeping encounters

      ByJulie Kerekes
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